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Many times we want to secure our WebApplication Resources in such a way that if any Client is trying to access any Resource available as part of our Application using HTTP protocol then It should be automatically be redirected to WebLogic’s Secure port and the protocol should be changed automatically from HTTP to HTTPS.

Example: If a Client is accessing any Page like:
http://localhost:7001/MySecureApp/index.jsp (Where 7001 is HTTP Listen Post of Server)
We want that Client’s request should be automatically change to :
https://localhost:7002/MySecureApp/index.jsp (Where 7002 is HTTPS Secure Post of Server).

Step1).Create a Directory somewhere in your File System.
Example: “C:MySecureApp”

Step2). Provide the following “index.jsp” page inside “C:MySecureApp”

Step3). Create a “WEB-INF” directory inside “C:MySecureApp” and then provide the following “web.xml” file inside it…as following:

Step4). Deploy the Application “MySecureApp” on WebLogic Server…and then Hit the index.jsp Page using HTTP protocol:

you will see that the URL automatically changes to https://localhost:7002/MySecureApp/index.jsp

UPDATE:

If you need any one JSP page which should not go be redirect in HTTPS then you can do edit “web.xml” in the following way

In this demonstration we will see how to create a simple keystore and based on this how to configure the HTTPs connector in JBoss AS7. Also in many production environments it is desired to redirect clients incoming HTTP requests to HTTPs automatically.

So here we will see how can be use the redirect port configuration in the http connector and what kind of information we need to provide inside the “web.xml” file of our web application where we want automatic HTTPs redirection feature to make all the client conversation with the server CONFIDENTIAL.

SSL Configuration on JBoss AS7

Step1). Create a simple SSL certificate keystore. We can use the “keytool” utility which comes by default with the JDK and present inside the “$JAVA_HOME/bin” directory. So before running the below command make sure that you have set the PATH to point to your JDK bin directory.

Step2). Run the following command to create a sample key store file with name “chap8.keystore”

Step3). Now paste the generated “chap8.keystore” inside the “/home/userone/jboss-as-7.1.0.Beta1/standalone/configuration” directory and then edit the “standalone-full.xml” file present in the same directory. We will need to edit the “urn:jboss:domain:web:1.1″ subsystem as following:

NOTE: We added the redirect-port=”8443″ inside the http connector as well as we added the “https” connector settings with the ssl informations.

Step4). Now restart the JBoss AS7 server from inside “/home/userone/jboss-as-7.1.0.Beta1//bin” directory as following:

Writing Test WebApplication

Step5). For simple testing we will write a web application. So create a directory somewhere in your file system with name “/home/userone/SelfSigned_SSL_Demo” and then create another directory “src” inside “/home/userone/SelfSigned_SSL_Demo”.

Step6). place the following kind of simple “index.jsp” file inside “/home/userone/SelfSigned_SSL_Demo/src” directory:

Step7). Now we will write a “web.xml” file inside the “/home/userone/SelfSigned_SSL_Demo/src” directory, and in this file we will define the user-data-constraint as CONFIDENTIAL sothat clients request matching the url-pattern defined will be automatically be redirected to the redirect-port defined inside the “standalone-full.xml” file.

Step8). To simply build and deploy the above web application we will write the following kind of “build.xml” file inside “/home/userone/SelfSigned_SSL_Demo” directory.

Step9). Now before running your ANT script to build and deploy the above webapplication you should have the ANT as well as JAVA set in the $PATH variable of the Shell / command prompt as following:

Step10). run the ant script “ant” to build and deploy the application on JBoss AS7.

NOTE: Access the application with URL “http://localhost:8080/SelfSigned_HttpsTest/index.jsp” and you will notice that your URL is automatically chaged to ” https://localhost:8443/SelfSigned_HttpsTest/index.jsp”

reference from :http://tkurek.blogspot.in/2013/07/tomcat-7-http-to-https-redirect.html

Tomcat 7 HTTP to HTTPS redirect

Intro

The following article shows how to easily redirect HTTP to HTTP in Tomcat 7 servlet container that it always requires secure connection. It was assumed that the following TCP ports are used for that purpose:

8080: for HTTP
8443: for HTTPS

Please, follow the exact steps as described below to get it done.

Configuration

1) Update server.xml configuration file in Tomcat home directory and change the following part of its configuration:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

connectionTimeout="20000"

URIEncoding="UTF-8"

redirectPort="8443" />

to what's shown below:

<Connector port="8080" enableLookups="false"

redirectPort="8443" />

2) Update web.xml configuration file in Tomcat home directory and add the following content into the end before the closing </web-app> markup:

<security-constraint>

<web-resource-collection>

<web-resource-name>Protected Context</web-resource-name>

<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

</web-resource-collection>

<user-data-constraint>

<transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>

</user-data-constraint>

</security-constraint>

3) Restart Tomcat servlet container.

You're done! The Tomcat always requires secure connection now.